Chapter 101 He only knew that she had suffered a great injustice

Wen Xingluo curled up his fingertips.

The Golden Crossbow was something from the palace. According to her growth trajectory, she shouldn't have seen it.

So she lied, "I haven't seen it. I just subconsciously felt it was dangerous, so I warned him."

Xie Guanlan glanced at her and silently sheathed his knife.

He even knew the secret of the pear blossom needle hidden in the golden crossbow, and it was not just subconscious.

She entered the palace on behalf of Wen Yueyin, rescued the fourth brother from Jinweizhai, predicted the flood in advance, saw the Jincuo crossbow, and after the Shen family got into trouble, she gave Shen Yu the idea of ​​bribing Concubine Zhang with Yusijin, and whispering in the emperor's ear to let Shen's father go.

She was far away in the southwest, but she knew better than the officials in the capital that the one who was truly favored in the palace was Concubine Zhang, not the queen.

Xie Guanlan did not expose the loopholes in Wen Xingluo's words.

He brought her back to the study and said, "I'm going to deal with what happened just now. I'll take you home after I'm done."

Wen Xingluo watched him close the door.

She knew he had always been suspicious of her.

But she also knew that although Xie Guanlan was a kind-hearted man with a black heart, he would never point the knife at his own people.

She slowly cleaned the dust off her body and tidied her appearance.

She drank half a cup of tea and seeing that Xie Guanlan had not returned yet, she strolled around the study.

His study in the government office was exactly the same as the study in Canglang Pavilion, equally simple and solemn, with no small ornaments or snacks, not even a notebook to relieve boredom.

Wen Xingluo sat in his armchair, glanced at the piles of documents in front of him, and was suddenly attracted by a confession pressed under the black jade Qilin ruler.

There were still fresh blood stains on the edges of the confession, as if it had been taken from the interrogation just over the past two days.

Could it be my father's?

She glanced at the closed door and reached out to pick up the document.

Flipping through the pages, it listed all the crimes Wen Qingsong had committed since he became the county magistrate. In addition to all kinds of corruption, bribery, and wrongful convictions, he had even sent his mother to the beds of more than a dozen powerful people in the past ten years!

The purpose is either to ask those powerful people to help cover up the crimes he committed, or to seek promotion!

The girl's pupils gradually became moist, and her eyes turned red, almost crazy.

She really couldn't understand how there could be a man in the world who could be so vicious!

He was not grateful to his first wife who gave birth to his children. Not only did he eat her up and even chewed her bones to pieces, he even invited other men to bully her together!

No wonder my mother always claimed to be sick and stayed at home, always hiding in that small world...

She was afraid. She was afraid of running into a scum like Wen Qingsong again. She was afraid of being bullied again!

The slender fingertips left deep marks on the document.

Wen Xingluo shuddered and closed his eyes, suppressing the overwhelming hatred.

When she opened her eyes again, her almond-shaped eyes were cold and indifferent.

When Xie Guanlan came back, the study was empty.

A clerk came in and reported, "Commander-in-Chief, the young lady asked me to tell you that she has returned home for something."

Xie Guanlan said "hmm".

After the clerk left, he took out an old history book from the depths of the bookshelf.

It is a history book compiled by common people. It is not very rigorous and contains some miraculous legends. For example, in a certain dynasty and year, someone saw a dragon hidden in the dark clouds on a thunderstorm; or a man in strange clothes appeared on the street, claiming to be from the previous dynasty. He watched two old men playing chess in the mountains. After the game, he suddenly found that the axe in his hand had rotted and the man had arrived hundreds of years later.

Xie Guanlan does not believe in gods or Buddhas.

But the three thousand great ways are extremely mysterious. If Wen Xingluo was reborn, it might not be impossible.

He rubbed his brows.

If that little girl was really reborn, she must have had a very hard life in her previous life, right?

That was why, when she first came to the palace, she was so good at observing people's words and expressions and was so cautious in everything she did, for fear of displeasing him and being kicked out of the palace.

Thinking back to when she first received a pair of gold bracelets with scroll patterns as a gift from her grandmother, she wore them on her wrists happily while studying at Baihe Academy, but he was too greedy and vain to dare wear them again. An indescribable feeling of suffocation filled Xie Guanlan's chest.

Like... regret.

He looked at the desk.

The little girl was using his tea set. There were some traces of lip balm on the edge of the porcelain white teacup, like the remains of red lipstick that had withstood the wind and rain.

He stretched out his hand.

The fingertips with thin calluses stroked the edge of the teacup.

He looked at the remaining blood on his fingertips, and his narrow eyes became more profound.

He didn't care whether Wen Xingluo was reborn or not.

He didn't care whether he could get palace secrets from her, or whether he could know the future world situation in advance through her.

He only knew that the little girl from the Zhenbei Palace had suffered a great injustice.

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Wen Xingluo returned to Xiejinyuan and took out his money box.

She wrote down the names of all those who bullied her mother. She wanted to hire someone to kill them and make them pay with their lives.

The money box contained her monthly allowance at the palace. After counting it, she found that it was not much.

She rummaged through the boxes and drawers and found a lot of jewelry.

Most of them were given by her grandmother, and several of them were her grandmother's treasured dowry. She felt guilty about having to pawn them.

The gold cakes Lai Zhongliang sent could be used, but they weren't enough...

Just as she was pondering, Cuicui ran in happily, holding a wooden box. "Miss, a manager from the Shen family just came and gave you a box of banknotes. They said it was dividends from the Shu brocade business!"

Wen Xingluo's eyes lit up.

When the Shen family was an imperial merchant, there was a problem with the batch of Shu brocade they sent to the capital. Shen's father was imprisoned in the sky prison. The Shen family went back and forth for him but could not find a solution.

Later, Shen Yu contacted her under the pretext of looking for a marriage partner and asked her for help.

She instructed Shen Yu to use Yusijin to please Concubine Zhang and asked her to persuade the emperor.

If successful, she will take away 20% of the Shen family's annual profits.

Wen Xingluo opened the wooden box, and found neatly stacked banknotes inside.

It seems that the idea she gave Shen Yu worked, and Shen's father returned to the southwest safely.

With the banknotes, Wen Xingluo felt more confident.

She wrote a list and gave it to Cuicui along with the banknotes and gold cakes. "Send someone to the black market in Rongcheng to post a reward. I want the heads of the people on the list."

Cuicui blinked.

Although I don’t know why the young lady wants these people’s heads, since she has been given to the young lady by the Concubine Dowager, she will be the young lady’s person from now on!

Whatever the lady does is right!

She nodded vigorously, "I'll do it right away!"

At night, Wen Xingluo and Chen Lezhi took a bath. Before going to bed, they moved two embroidered cushions and sat facing each other beside the small wooden barrel, soaking their feet with the leftover swallowtail flowers from the daytime.

The lattice door was suddenly blown open by the cold wind.

Wen Xingluo was about to ask the maid to close the door when a figure in snow-white clothes slowly stepped over the threshold.

Xie Yanchen held up the lantern and spoke softly, "I've uncovered the bounty on my sister's head on the black market, and I'm going to collect it tonight. In my heart, my sister is different from others, so I can offer her the additional service of personally taking care of her. Would you like to join me?"

Wen Xingluo was stunned.

It's one thing for Xie Yanchen to live in a charity cemetery surrounded by corpses, but he's actually an assassin in private?!

As if sensing the girl's bewilderment, Xie Yanchen looked aggrieved. "I want to practice medicine, but they're afraid I'll do something to them, something like that, so they won't let me see them. I have no choice but to take on assassination jobs to make a living. I never take on jobs like tonight's, which are low-paying and high-work. It's only because my sister offered the reward that I'm willing to do it myself."

"Bounty? Assassination?" Before Wen Xingluo could come to his senses, Chen Lezhi got excited first, "I want to go too, I want to go too!"

As a result, when the three of them sneaked out of the house, they ran into Xie Shian who had just returned from drinking.

The four of them decided to go together.

Canglang Pavilion.

Xie Guanlan stood at the highest point, watching four dark shadows stealthily blend into the night.